Customer Service (CS) : Curriculum: Introduction To S4HANA Using Global Bike

Customer Service (CS)
Curriculum: Introduction to S4HANA using Global Bike

Teaching material - Information
i Teaching material - Version
 3.3 (July 2019)
 Software used
• SAP S/4HANA
 Model
• Global Bike
 Prerequisites
• No Prerequisites needed
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Module Information
Authors
 Tim Böttcher
 Chris Bernhardt
 Stefan Weidner
Target Audience
 Beginner

Module Information
Learning Objectives
You are able to

 name some functionalities of the CS module.
 define the central organizational structures of the CS module.
 summarize the master data which is most important for the CS module.
 explain standard processes of the Customer Service.

Functionality
 Service Contract
 Service Notification
 Service Order
 Goods Return and Repair

Agenda
 CS Organizational Structure
 CS Master Data
 CS Processes

GBI Structure for Customer Service
Global Bike Client
Global Bike Inc. Global Bike Germany GmbH Company Code
Plant
San Diego Miami Heidelberg Hamburg
Dallas
Maintenance Plant
Responsible Maintenance
Planning Plant
Misc.
Storage Location
CS Organizational Structure
 Client
• An independent environment in the System
 Company Code
• Smallest org unit for which you can maintain a legal set of books
 Storage Location
• An organizational unit allowing differentiation between the various stocks of material in a plant
 Plant
• Operating area or branch within a company
 Manufacturing, distribution, purchasing or maintenance facility
• Place in which the technical objects of a company are installed

 Sales Organization
• An organizational unit responsible for the sale of certain products or services.
• The responsibility of a sales organization may include legal liability for products and customer claims
 Distribution Channel
• The way in which products or services reach the customer
• Typical examples of distribution channels are wholesale, retail, or direct sales
 Division
• A way of grouping materials, products, or services
 Sales Area
• Combination of Sales Organization, Distribution Channel and Division
• Determines conditions (i.e. pricing) for sales activities

Sales Area (example)
ElectroPro Company
Code
Northern Area Southern Area Sales Organization
Internet Wholesale Wholesale Distribution Channel
Mobile Kitchenware Home

Kitchenware Division
Entertainment
Sales Area

 Sales Office
• establishes contact between the firm and the regional market
 Sales Group
• performs and is responsible for sales transactions
 Shipping Point
• performs shipping processing and is the part of the company responsible for the type of shipping, the necessary shipping
materials and the means of transport
 Picking Location
• place where the goods will be picked for shipping
 Purchasing Organization
• organizational unit responsible for procuring services and materials

 Operating Concern
• represents a part of an organization for which the sales market is structured in a uniform manner
• a operating profit for the individual market segments can be calculated
• multiple controlling areas can be assigned to one operating concern
 Controlling Area
• a self-contained, organizational unit for which the management of revenues and expenses can be performed
• may include one or more company codes; therefore, an enterprise can perform management accounting analyses and
reports across several companies
• a way to identify and track where revenues and costs are incurred for evaluation purposes

Agenda
 CS Master Data
 CS Processes

CS Master Data
 Customer Master Data
 Equipment
 Work Center
 Bill of Material
 Material Master Data
 Vendor Master Data

Customer Master Data
 Customer Master
• Contains all of the information necessary for processing orders, deliveries,
invoices and customer payment
• Every customer MUST have a master record
 Created by Sales Area

• Sales Organization
• Distribution Channel
• Division

Customer Master Data
 The customer master information is divided into 3 areas:

• General Data
• Company Code Data
• Sales Area Data

Equipment Master Record
 Equipment Master Data

• contains all information around
equipment
 Information in four views:

• General
• Location
• Organization
• Structure

Equipment / Functional Location - Definition
 Equipment
• Individual and autonomous technical unit
• Physical object for which maintenance tasks are planned and performed
• Equipments can be placed in functional locations
 Functional Location
• Hierarchal organized structure which represents e.g. a technical system, a building or a part of it
• Structural depiction of a technical plant
• Planning and performing maintenance tasks
 Classification
• assignment of an item or initiative to one or several buckets of a classification hierarchy
• The act of assigning a value of a given characteristic to an object

Equipment / Functional Location - Definition
 Measuring point and counter reading

• describes the state of a technical object
• important for regulations, e.g. emission limits of a plant
 Serial number
• used for individualization of materials
• distinguish materials with the same material number
• specify the exact location of an unique good
• save additional information
• e.g. manual, warranty information

Work Center
 A location within a plant where value-added work (operations or activities) are performed
• Work Centers can represent
 People or Groups of People
 Machines or Groups of Machines
 Assembly Lines
 Work center used to define capacities

• Labor
• Machine
• Output
• Emissions
 Capacities used in
• Capacity requirements planning (CRP)
• Detailed scheduling
• Costing

Bill of Material – Definition
 Complete formally structured list of all components
 Material BOMs can be allocated to functional locations or equipment
 Three types of BOMs in Enterprise Asset Management:

• Material BOMs
• Equipment BOMs
• Functional location BOMs
 Advantages
• Structuring of objects
• Service parts planning in maintenance orders and maintenance task lists
• Within plant maintenance BOMs are used, if similar object should be maintained

Warranties
 A guarantee to vouch for defects or faults in the product purchased, valid for a specific period of time
 The type and scope of the services covered, such as repairing a defect for free or taking the product back, are
defined in the warranty
 Can be distinguished in vendor-, manufacturer- or customer warranty
 Valid for a specific technical object

• functional location, equipment or serial number

Material Master Data
 Material Master
• Contains all the information a company needs to manage about a material
• It is used by most components within the SAP system
 Sales and Distribution
 Materials Management
 Production
 Plant Maintenance
 Accounting/Controlling
 Quality Management
• Material master data is stored in functional segments called Views

Material Master Views
Sales Data
Basic Data Purchasing Data
Mat. Plan. Data
Material Master Forecasting Data
Storage Data
Controlling Data Quality Data
Accounting Data

Material Master
General Information relevant for the entire organization:
Name
Weight
Client XXX Unit of Measure
Sales specific information: Storage Location specific information:
Delivering Plant Stock Qty

Loading Grp
Sales Org. UW00 Storage Loc. FG00
Sales Org. UE00 Storage Loc. TG00

Vendor Master Data
 Vendor Master
• Contains all the necessary information needed to business with
an external supplier
• Used and maintained primarily by the Purchasing and Accounting
Departments
• Every vendor MUST have a master record

Vendor Master Views
 Client Level
• Address
• Vendor Number
• Preferred Communication
General Data
 Company Code Data

• Reconciliation Account
• Terms of Payment Company Code Data
• Bank Account Financial Accounting (FI)
 Purchase Org Data
• Purchasing Currency
• Salesman’s Name Purchasing Data
• Vendor Partners Materials Mgmt (MM)

Agenda
 CS Master Data
 CS Processes

Service Contract
 Long term agreement

• predefined validity period
• for at least one technical object
• predefined services
• predefined conditions
 Header
• Sales-, contract-, and billing data
• Billing plan
• Conditions
 Items
• Service
• Configuration
• Technical Objects

Service Contract - Types
 Service contract
• Solve reported problems of a customer
 Service and maintenance contract

• Maintenance of technical object in a predefined manner
• Master agreement with a customer
• Reversal of a predefined quantity or value

Service Notification
 Means by which notifications from a customer are entered and managed in Customer Service
 Used for documentation and evaluation
 Components
• Customer information
• Information about technical object and service contract
• Information about valid warranties
 Types
• Customer message / problem notification
• Service request
• Technical completion
 If there is need for action a service order will be created

Service Order
 Precise assessment of time and ressources
 Can be created as follow-up of a service notification
 Planning of service actions

• Resource planning for internal and external employees
• Determination of specific execution date
 Confirmation

Service Order - Content
 Customer information
 Information about the location
 Object information
 Information about planning and execution of activities
 Information about planned and actual costs
 Information about settlement of the actual costs

Service Order - Process
Service Order
Business Planning and

completion release
Execution of
Billing
activities
Confirmation
and technical
completion

Goods return and repair
 Return of a damaged good
 Receipt through goods return
 Repaired through customer service
 Billing

Goods return and repair - Process
Customer
message
Customer
Billing
repair order
Goods
Good issue
receipt
Service Technical
order inspection
Repair

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i Teaching material - Version

 3.3 (July 2019)

© 2019 SAP SE / SAP UCC Magdeburg. All rights reserved. 2

© 2019 SAP SE / SAP UCC Magdeburg. All rights reserved. 3

You are able to

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 Goods Return and Repair

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Global Bike Client

Global Bike Inc. Global Bike Germany GmbH Company Code

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Northern Area Southern Area Sales Organization

Internet Wholesale Wholesale Distribution Channel

Mobile Kitchenware Home

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 Customer Master Data

 Material Master Data

 Vendor Master Data

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 Created by Sales Area

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 The customer master information is divided into 3 areas:

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 Equipment Master Data

 Information in four views:

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 Measuring point and counter reading

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 Work center used to define capacities

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 Complete formally structured list of all components

 Material BOMs can be allocated to functional locations or equipment

 Three types of BOMs in Enterprise Asset Management:

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 Can be distinguished in vendor-, manufacturer- or customer warranty

 Valid for a specific technical object

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Basic Data Purchasing Data

Mat. Plan. Data

Material Master Forecasting Data

Controlling Data Quality Data

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General Information relevant for the entire organization:

Sales specific information: Storage Location specific information:

Delivering Plant Stock Qty

Sales Org. UE00 Storage Loc. TG00

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 Company Code Data

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 Long term agreement

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 Service and maintenance contract